[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 10120]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Lord of all, You loved us before we loved You. Accept our 
thanksgiving for the gifts of life, love, and laughter.
  Come among our lawmakers and manifest Your unifying love. Strengthen 
them in their work, leading them with Your wisdom. Lord, empower them 
to do Your work on Earth, even as it is done in Heaven. May they labor 
with the confidence that they are kept by Your power. Guide them into 
the future inspired by the knowledge that their times are in Your 
hands.
  We pray in Your mighty Name. Amen.

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